I'm a classic ectomorph aged at 18, I've been hitting the gym hard for about a month now and have been able to observer some sort of progress with both machines and free weights.
However, even though ...

There is a large cord I can see and feel on the lateral (outside) part of my knee and I'm wondering what it is, as it hurts sometimes. Does anyone know what it is? I think it is the LCL, the IT band ...

This may seem a little bit funny, because I don't even know if they exist!
I saw this in the anime Dragon Ball Z. Goku, hanging upside down with his hands on his neck, touches his head to his knees ...

You may have seen those crossfit guys doing pullups on the gyms. But why guys?? Why? I asked a crossfit trainer and he said "we are doing this because we need to be explosive and do more pull ups" . I ...

If I'm cooking, I can easily count the number of calories that I'm consuming per meal by taking to fraction of the total product that I'm putting into each serving.
Whenever you go out or eat someone ...

Can you calculate % of V02 max at which you're working (assuming it's >100%) by measuring change in blood oxygenation with a pulse ox?
My understanding is that working at >100% VO2 max means you're ...

First up, I know there are any elbow noise questions out there, but they do not describe my experience completely.
Okay so I'm 18 yrs old and very skinny with little muscle, and I started gym a month ...

I recently replaced running with biking for my workouts. Reason being, I get very light headed and my feet feel the burning sensation quite quickly into my run. After I run (lets say 4 miles), I feel ...

I have been attempting to get the hang of various flips off of the diving board into the pool. One of the problems I run into is that I'm very bad at tracking where I am in a flip so as to know when ...

I got a set of dumbbells and an incline bench, and just started some basic exercises.
I used only 2.5kg per arm but found difficult to do set of 3 x 12. I noticed my hands were not moving under 100% ...

I started to do some Romanian Deadlifts (RDLs) in the gym yesterday when a guy came and said to me, "man, you are doing the stiff-legged deadlift wrong".
Apparently those are two similar exercises, ...

If, for example I train my chest and back, and I have 2 exercises for each muscle group, lets call them chest1, chest2, back1, back2.
In this situation I usually wanted to train back1, chest1, back2, ...

I recently returned to strength training after years of only cardio. Today I mostly exercise with bodyweight and TRX, trying to avoid the muscle isolation method of classic free weigh exercises.
Back ...

My friend probably in his late 20s at the gym tells me his secret to benching 405 is a secret workout he does daily. This confuses me, because he told me another day that his only exercise was the gym ...

There is a challenge at a beach I go to. Pay 2.5 euros for the opportunity to try and hold on to a bar for longer than 2 minutes. The bar is not fixed, meaning it can rotate. On a fixed bar I can hold ...

I am planning to start pilates for better posture and also weight training. I am planning to go to pilates in my rest days. But I am concerned with two things:
1) Will pilates kill my gains? Because ...

I don't like the ingredients in most commercially available protein shakes/MRPs, so I make my own: whey protein, coconut oil, creatine, hmb, honey. Unfortunately, it a) tastes absolutely horrible, b) ...

I had a look at the "treadmill version" on the c25k website, but it has runs lasting < 2 minutes. The treadmill that I want to use, is very slow changing speeds - I'm concerned that going from walk ...

My problem is that I have a slightly concaved chest. This condition is known as moobs or man boobs. I had this since my birth, something that I realized after serving my childhood pictures. They seem ...

I started working out again because I'm getting in bad shape and I can feel how out of shape I've gotten the past few months. I signed up at the gym and have no problem going there to workout after ...